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No 1 UK Bestseller Amazon UK Amazon US My friend and foster carer, Tash, phoned me one evening, very upset. Becks, 16, who she and her husband had been fostering had made an allegation of sexual misconduct against their son, Ryan, 15. Despite being experienced and...

No 1 UK Bestseller Amazon UK Amazon US Lara and her one-year-old son, Arthur, came to live with me during the pandemic. Lara was fleeing an abusive relationship and Arthur had suspected non-accidental injuries. Lara claimed her son was accident prone but the social...

No 1 UK Bestseller Amazon UK Amazon US Angie, aged 5, and her sister Polly, aged 4, were utterly distraught when they were removed from home by social workers and brought to live with me. They loved their mummy and daddy and seemed to have been well cared for, but...

No 1 UK Bestseller Amazon UK Amazon US Little Jamey, just 2½ years old, arrived as an emergency placement two days before Christmas. Bad enough that a child has to leave home and come into foster care, even worse just before Christmas. But the police and social...

No 1 UK bestseller! Amazon UK Amazon US When I was asked to foster Darcy-May, a two-day old baby, I immediately teared up. She was coming to me straight from hospital and would have no contact with her teenage mother, Haylea. Even more worrying, she would arrive with...

No 1 UK bestseller!  BUY ON AMAZON UK BUY ON AMAZON US What could I possibly say to a mother who’d recently lost her husband and son in tragic circumstances? I thought, as I drove to meet her for the first time. I’d no idea. As if the poor woman didn’t have enough to...

A True Story UK  Top Ten Bestseller BUY ON AMAZON UK BUY ON AMAZON US I knew from the start Oskar, age 6, had secrets. He was brought into foster care when his mother left him with ‘friends’ while she went abroad. He was arriving in school hungry, unwashed, and with...

A True Story Top Ten Bestseller BUY ON AMAZON UK BUY ON AMAZON US The children’s parents were utterly distraught when little Kit, 18 months old, and his sister, Molly, 3 years, were brought into care as a result of suspected non-accidental injuries.  One or both of...

A True Story Top Ten Bestseller! BUY ON AMAZON UK BUY ON AMAZON US When Stevie’s social worker told me Stevie was gender fluid I wasn’t sure what that term meant and looked it up on the internet. Stevie, together with his younger brother and sister, had been brought...

BUY ON AMAZON UK BUY ON AMAZON US Top Ten bestseller! When I was asked to foster Melody, aged eight, I was sure I’d heard it all before. Melody was the last of five siblings to be taken into care. Her single mother was a long term intravenous drug user who couldn’t...

BUY ON AMAZON UK BUY ON AMAZON US Number 1 UK bestseller! Many of us are aware of the shocking conditions that exist in state run orphanages in some developing countries, but nothing could have prepared me for hearing about it first hand. Elaine and Ian followed the...

11 Weeks in the Top Ten! BUY ON AMAZON UK BUY ON AMAZON US Fostering 6 year old Max got off to a bad start when his mother telephoned me with threats and complaints even before he’d moved in. I hoped our relationship would improve with time. She was in hospital...

No 1 Bestseller BUY ON AMAZON UK BUY ON AMAZON US When I was asked to foster little Alex, aged 7, my immediate reaction was: Why can’t he stay with his present carers for the last month? He’d already had many moves since coming into care as a toddler and he’d only be...

TOP TEN BEST SELLER BUY ON AMAZON UK BUY ON AMAZON US With little background information on Dawn I was rather left to get on with it. However, it soon became clear that Dawn's polite and sweet nature concealed a terrible past. So terrible that she was haunted by night...

7 weeks in the top ten! BUY ON AMAZON UK BUY ON AMAZON US A True Story Fostering little Beth, aged 7, appeared to be straightforward to begin with. She was a sweet-natured child who seemed to have been well looked after by her father, a single parent. However, I began...

TOP TEN BEST SELLER A True Story BUY ON AMAZON UK BUY ON AMAZON US Children usually come into foster care as a result of abuse or severe neglect. Very occasionally, and sadly, it is a result of one or both parents becoming ill or even dying. When I was first asked to...

3 months in the top ten bestseller list! Top 20 bestselling biography of 2012 A True Story BUY ON AMAZON UK BUY ON AMAZON US When I was asked to foster a new born baby I was worried if I would remember how to look after a baby. I hadn't fostered a baby before and...

Top Ten Bestseller Biography bestseller list A True Story BUY ON AMAZON UK BUY ON AMAZON US Donna had been in foster care with her two young brothers for three weeks when she was suddenly moved to me with only a few hours notice. When she first arrived she wouldn’t...

No 1 Bestseller! 14 weeks in the bestseller charts! A True Story BUY ON AMAZON UK BUY ON AMAZON US I'd never fostered a pregnant teenager before - they were usually looked after by specialist 'mother and baby' carers. However, none was free when Jade (aged seventeen)...

No 1 in the bestseller charts, 11 weeks in the top twenty! A True Story BUY ON AMAZON UK BUY ON AMAZON US This is the story of my adopted daughter, Lucy, who came to me as a foster child and stayed for good. Lucy was born to a single parent who had herself been abused...

15 weeks in Top Ten! A True Story BUY ON AMAZON UK BUY ON AMAZON US I was expecting Alice to be brought to me by the social worker at any moment when the phone rang. It was the social worker, anxiously telling me that Alice had been snatched by her mother, and the...

TOP TEN BESTSELLER! A True Story BUY ON AMAZON UK BUY ON AMAZON US It was a dark cold winter's evening when I was asked to help in the search for little Danny. The social worker had gone to Danny's school that afternoon to tell him he was going into care and he'd run...

No.1 Sunday Times Bestseller , 4th bestselling memoir of the year. No 3 in the Top 50 Biography bestseller list.  BUY ON AMAZON UK BUY ON AMAZON US Damaged is the true story of the relationship between Jodie and me. Jodie was the most disturbed and abused child I had...

Top Ten Bestseller! 71 weeks in the bestseller lists. BUY ON AMAZON UK BUY ON AMAZON US Betrayed, exploited and forgotten. How one boy overcame the odds. A powerful and shocking memoir of a young boy whose good behaviour and excellent manners hid a terrible past. Tayo...

14 weeks in Top Ten Bestsellers BUY ON AMAZON UK BUY ON AMAZON US A true story 'Hello, Tracey,' I smiled. 'I'm Cathy, Reece's carer.' 'Is he staying with you now?' Tracey bellowed. 'He better be! I ain't 'aving 'im moved again, it's a bleeding disgrace. Them wankers!'...

4 months in the Top Twenty! BUY ON AMAZON UK BUY ON AMAZON US A true story When I first heard about Aimee I was horrified. The referral from the social services stated that Aimee kicked, bit her mother and pulled her mother's hair, and worst of all, Aimee had...

TOP TEN BEST SELLER! BUY ON AMAZON UK BUY ON AMAZON US A true story I knew from the start that Zeena's story was going to be different. She was 14 and had asked to come into foster care. Although she was Asian she told the social worker she couldn't live with an Asian...

No 1 BESTSELLER! A true story BUY ON AMAZON UK BUY ON AMAZON US When Laura, a new mother and a friend of mine told me she was feeling a little unwell I'd no idea she was really suffering from severe post natal depression. She refused to see a doctor and her husband...

TOP TEN BEST SELLER! BUY ON AMAZON UK BUY ON AMAZON US It’s very sad when a mother can’t keep her baby but I had to be professional. Faye was gentle, childlike, kind and highly vulnerable. She suffered from foetal alcohol syndrome as a result of her mother’s...

TOP TEN BEST SELLER! BUY ON AMAZON UK BUY ON AMAZON US A True Story. Joss, aged 13, was angry and out of control when she came to live with me. Two previous foster carers and an aunt had tried but failed to help her. I had doubts I would do any better and I knew I was...